Career Opportunities

TITLE OF POST: PhD Opportunity in Computer Science – SimuLimb Project
LOCATION: University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

Supervisors
Prof Tiziana Margaria (University of Limerick)
In cooperation with Dr. Kevin Moerman (NUIG)

DESCRIPTION
We offer an opportunity to join the exciting SimuLimb project in an interdisciplinary collaboration between Dr. Kevin Moerman (Biomedical Engineering, NUIG) and Prof. Tiziana Margaria (Computer Science, UL). The SimuLimb project aims to create, deploy, and clinically evaluate an open-source computational framework for automated prosthetic socket design.

Funded by the Science Foundation Ireland Lero Research Centre, this project is located at the nexus of digital and biomedical design, with a strong reliance on advanced model driven development technologies and data science support. You will work as part of the multidisciplinary SimuLimb team drawn from the specialties of Biomedical Engineering as well as Computer Science. The specific position offers research, design and development responsibilities covering the Computer Science and Software aspects within the SimuLimb project, under the supervision of Prof. Margaria in UL.

Your role will cover research, software system design and development as needed to build a new generation of design, development and analytics platform for the design and evaluation of prosthetic sockets. The new platform needs to be robust and easily evolvable, so that it can include, over time, all the services needed for modern and future customization, evolution, analysis and refinement. It is an open-source open access platform, as we address among other goals also the ease of access and adoption, and the democratization of complex application development, lowering the barriers to access, adoption and proficiency. The platform will provide interfaces to the devices and facilitate the design of applications for the design and evaluation of the prosthetic sockets in a low-code approach enhanced by rigorous analysis and verification methods.

The successful candidate will additionally be affiliated with Lero – the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. Lero brings together expert software teams from universities and institutes of technology across Ireland in a co-ordinated centre of research excellence with a strong industry focus.

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TITLE OF POST: PhD Position: Ethics and Trustworthiness of Algorithmic Decision making Systems in the Public Sector
LOCATION: Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

BACKGROUND
Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, brings together expert software teams from universities and institutes of technology across Ireland in a co-ordinated centre of research excellence with a strong industry focus. Lero’s research spans a wide range of application domains from driverless cars to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, govtech, smart communities, agtech and healthtech. Lero’s overall vision is to establish Ireland as a location synonymous with high-quality software research and development, to the extent that ‘Irish software’can enter the lexicon in the same way as ‘German automotive’ or ‘Scandinavian design’. Since it was founded in 2005, Lero has become one of the best-known, and most highly regarded, software research centres in the world.

RESEARCH CONTEXT
Algorithmic Decision-making Systems (ADS) are increasingly pervasive and are revolutionising services across different industries and the public sector. The challenges and issues associated with ADS deployment in high stake contexts are increasingly discussed in scholarly outlets. These include the need to increase efficiency, reduce potential harm, as well as promote fairness, equity, accountability and transparency in decision making. Understanding how trust in ADS can be generated so as to increase more broad-based adoption is an issue of interest to scholars and practitioners alike. It is particularly important in relation to the public sector, as ADS may actually entrench, amplify and even obscure human bias and discrimination in decision processes -something that underpins public concerns and reduces trust.

PhD OBJECTIVE
The goal of this PhD thesis is to investigate the trust-related factors that influence acceptance and adoption of ADS within different public sector situational contexts. It will provide important insights into the dynamics of trust generation in ADS and will contribute theoretical and conceptual foundations that support development of ethical ADS in public sector contexts.

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TITLE OF POST: Funded MSc Opportunity x 2 in Computer Science – Digital Health
LOCATION: University of Limerick & National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Description
We offer an opportunity for two committed MSc students (full-time) to join our interdisciplinary Health Informatics and Digital Health research team across two sites – University of Limerick and National University of Ireland Galway. Applicants for the MSc scholarship must hold a BSc (1 or 2.1 Hons) in Health Informatics, Computer Systems, Software Engineering or equivalent. Applications will be considered where the applicant has relevant work experience.

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TITLE OF POST: Master by Research Opportunities in Digital Health – DHP-Transform Project
LOCATION: Dublin City University & Maynooth University, Ireland

Description
We offer students an opportunity to join the exciting DHP-Transform project in an interdisciplinary collaboration among University of Limerick (UL), National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG), Maynooth University (MU), and Dublin City University (DCU). The DHP-Transform project aims to design, develop and evaluate a model for digital health transformation (DHT). As DHT is not a straightforward application of digital technologies to healthcare, the healthcare process needs to be restructured. DHT influences behaviour, care pathways, and processes, causing stakeholders and technologies to co-operate in novel ways.

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TITLE OF POST: Post Doctoral Researcher in Omnidirectional Computer Vision and Machine Learning
LOCATION: University of Limerick, Ireland

Description
The successful candidate will be a senior team member within Lero projects FisheyeCam/RadNet.

The candidate will work on computer vision solutions for the vehicle automation industry. The overarching goals of the projects are:

• To investigate the effect of camera production tolerances on the performance of automotive vision algorithms.
• To adapt neural networks to work effectively on surround view automotive cameras.
• To perform pedestrian detection, tracking and prediction using surround automotive vision and radar data.

The successful candidate will be a key researcher in the projects and will work under the guidance of the Principal Investigators at the University of Limerick and in close collaboration with our industrial partners. The successful candidate will take responsibility for day-to-day management of the projects and will contribute actively to implementing the projects’ outputs, as well as supervising other staff (PhD students) in close collaboration with the Principal Investigators.

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TITLE OF POST: Post Doctoral Researcher in Software Engineering for AI
LOCATION: University of Limerick, Ireland

Overall purpose of the job:

The position will investigate the design and development of techniques, tools, and exemplars for specifying and satisfying requirements for Machine Learning (ML) applications grounded in formal methods and informed by software engineering practice. The aim is to strengthen engineering practices and improve the way ML applications are developed and deployed.

The post holder will work closely with project investigator Prof Bashar Nuseibeh, Research Fellow, research software engineers, and other postdoctoral researchers in the research team advising on software development solutions and promoting responsible research software engineering practices.

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Deadline
6th October 2022.

TITLE OF POST: Research AI Software Engineer
LOCATION: University of Limerick, Ireland

Overall purpose of the job:

• Develop exemplars in the domain of autonomous driving.
• Build prototypes to validate the research for requirements modelling and validation.
• Work collaboratively with members of the research team to produce a series of high-quality academic publications and open-source prototypes.
• Contribute to the research culture and activities of the wider research group. There is an expectation that this position will actively contribute to the strong profile of the group and its inter-disciplinary ethos through participation in the development and publication of research results.

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Deadline
5th October 2022.

TITLE OF POST: PhD – Tangible and physical computing for people with ASD
LOCATION: University of Limerick, Ireland

Description:

The project aims at identifying the role of tangible and physical computing in autism early intervention through the augmentation of physical objects and toys with computational and communicational capabilities. The overall research question is: How can we augment physical objects and toys with computational and communicational capabilities to support autism early intervention?

This project is critical of the growing enthusiasm and application of touch-screens and screen-based interaction in various educational settings including early interventions in autism, and it argues for an approach to computing and interactive technology that augments physical objects and environments to better suit the expressiveness and richness of human interaction with the physical world.

The project intends to open up untapped possibilities to better suit the needs and the strengths of autistic children in both educational and domestic settings, and equip them and their carers with physical tools that could better support, for instance,sensory integration, regulation, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, joint attention, language, social skills, etc.

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Application End Date
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Interviews will be carried out as soon as a suitable candidate is identified.

TITLE OF POST: PhD – Design and evaluation of AR/VR applications
LOCATION: University of Limerick, Ireland
PROJECT: Virtual Reality fostering inclusive and sustainable Industry 4.0

Description:

The goal of this research is to study the impact of Virtual Reality (VR) applications for higher education and manufacturing, particularly for frequent use and high demand applications i.e. health and safety training, remote maintenance or repair. Following a user-centred approach, these will benefit of reduced culturally induced bias and improved learning outcomes. Studies conducted in this project will focus on A) usability and B) impact assessment, contributing to

1. design, develop and explore augmented or VRapplications in manufacturing, to be tested with users from industry partners as well as higher education;
2. generate and disseminate training applications and design guidelines for future work;
3. estimate the social, economic (e.g., workplace diversity & inclusion) and potential environmental impact (e.g., carbon emissions) comparing the existing to interactive digital alternatives (e.g., immersive CAVE vs headsets)

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Application End Date
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Shortlisted candidates will be called for interview in January 2023.